Hard drive prices to remain above pre-flood levels until 2014

[Guest]

What a bunch of morons. Can you click the LINK to the report? Very first thing in the report....the $65 is the ASP, or Average Selling Price, of all hard drives sold globally. And no, that's not retail pricing.

As for the shortage being contrived....I guess morons don't read the newspaper, visit news sites online or watch TV news. There was a MASSIVE FLOOD (massive meaning it covered 1/3 of the total land mass in Taiwan!) that took out a huge number of HD plants and plants that make critical pieces for almost ALL of the HD makers.

I went over to Taiwan as part of a salvage group hired by Nidec, a company that supplies nearly 3/4 of all the drive motors for WD, Seagate, Samsung, Hitachi and Toshiba. We brought DIVERS to go down and try and recover machinery and other equipment, that's how much under water these places were.

So yeah, sit there on your asses and toss out your uninformed conspiracy theories since that's a lot easier than actually trying to find the facts.

Morons.

 

[LNCPapa]

I'm sorry, I don't know if I sensed any rage in your last post, Guest. Sure, we "morons" may not have all the info, but the only thing we can do to combat the still inflated prices is speak with our wallets. Those who really need additional storage now will buy it. Those who can wait or refuse to pay the after-flood premiums will wait. If you think there has never been a conspiracy within a company that is masked by tragedy then I think you may be the one with the blinders on.

-*****#1

 

[Guest]

Where's the damn thumbs up "like" button when you actually need it!

 

[oldikes]

What a bunch of morons. Can you click the LINK to the report? Very first thing in the report....the $65 is the ASP, or Average Selling Price, of all hard drives sold globally. And no, that's not retail pricing.

As for the shortage being contrived....I guess morons don't read the newspaper, visit news sites online or watch TV news. There was a MASSIVE FLOOD (massive meaning it covered 1/3 of the total land mass in Taiwan!) that took out a huge number of HD plants and plants that make critical pieces for almost ALL of the HD makers.

I went over to Taiwan as part of a salvage group hired by Nidec, a company that supplies nearly 3/4 of all the drive motors for WD, Seagate, Samsung, Hitachi and Toshiba. We brought DIVERS to go down and try and recover machinery and other equipment, that's how much under water these places were.

So yeah, sit there on your asses and toss out your uninformed conspiracy theories since that's a lot easier than actually trying to find the facts.

Morons.

how long ago was that? water evaporates you know, and it seeps into the ground, and based on common sense and science, it all should have been MONTHS ago. When you have that many hardware companies depending on you and have that much income, its not the end of the line to restart a chunk of your factories.

I know they all had it tough over there, and I feel bad for them. But the big companies are NOT even close to the worst off people there, they have it pretty damn easy.

 

[treetops]

I got a 7200 rpm 2 tb hd for about 100$ a month ago, I was in desperate need of a 2nd drive. I was considering a ssd butttttt, not with this oil company type news.

 

[gwailo247]

LOL. I guess we should be happy that at least some people on this planet still believe in altruism and are incapable of believing that a company would keep prices high artificially to make larger profits.

Good luck Guest, and good luck with helping out that Nigerian prince...

 

[Guest]

the floods werent in taiwan they were in wales

 

[Doctor John]

There are floods in Wales, but I humbly suggest that this is a separate issue.

 

[Guest]

Ohhh yes, they were. At least at the internet store I go to most of the time, prices stayed flat for a few days, then some hard drives went out of stock, then more went out of stock, then prices went up, and at the peak of the price hike, prices were more than double what they had bee nb efore and less than a third of models were in stock, most were shippable at "unkown" dates...

... on the corporate side of things, the place I work for buys "professional" machines, meaning "established" technology, meaning nothing larger than 500 GB, for prices I wouldn't pay for twice that. And those were in stock alright. I bet the makers of those computers have them stockpiled in huge numbers because they're barely being manufactured anymore.

 

[3DCGMODELER]

Just dont shut your HD's off....
na just kidding..
I have 2 Spare drives, WD 10,000 rpm drives, 600 gig ea...

Yep just watch for sales...
yep yep

 

[avoidz]

Same as others here. I am holding out buying any new HDs until this greedy scam ends.